B Company at Winchester redesignated B Company 2nd Battalion; new B Company formed at Swindon from elements D Coy 2nd Battalion

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1987.10.12

E Coy expanded to form HQ Company and A Company, 4th Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment

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1990.12

C Coy at Dorchester transferred as C Company, 4th Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment; new C Company formed at Newbury by transfer of '?' Coy 2nd Battalion

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1992.06

Battalion reduced to three rifle company order of battle: D Company at Poole transferred as D Company 4th Bn, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment; B Company at Swindon and C Company at Newbury transferred to 2nd Battalion; battalion now consisted solely of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Higher Formation:

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HQ Company at Devizes

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A Company at Gloucester

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B Company at Bristol, formed (effective 1 Apr. 1995) from Bristol plns of A Company and 245 Ambulance Sqn 155 Transport Regt RCT

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C Company at Cheltenham and Tewkesbury, formed (effective 1 Apr. 1995) from existing elements

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1995.10.06

Amalgamated with 2nd Battalion to form 2nd (V) Bn, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment

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2nd Battalion Wessex Volunteers

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1971.04.01

Formed with Headquarters at Brock Barracks, Reading from cadres of The Buckinghamshire Regiment RA, The Royal Berkshire Territorials, The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Territorials and The Dorset Territorials.

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HQ Company at Reading

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A (Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry) Company at Bletchley from cadre The Buckinghamshire Regiment RA

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B (Duke of Connaught's) Company at Portsmouth from cadre The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Territorials.

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C (Royal Berkshire) Company at Maidenhead, Slough and Basingstoke from cadre The Royal Berkshire Territorials

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D (Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry) Company at Poole, Bournemouth and Weymouth. Formed from cadre The Dorset Territorials